By Dana M Bergstrom, Honorary Senior Fellow in Ecology, University of Wollongong
When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put.
The existence of emperor penguins seems all but impossible. Their lives revolve around seasons, timing and access to “fast ice” – sea ice connected to the Antarctic coast. Here, the sea ice persists long enough into summer for the penguins to rear their chicks successfully.
But climate change is upending the penguins’ carefully tuned biological cycles. The crucial sea ice they depend on is melting too early, plunging…
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By Thomas Corben, Research Fellow, Foreign Policy and Defence, University of Sydney
Trump may push Albanese on defence spending, but America needs its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific perhaps more than anywhere else in the world.
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By Keersten Fitzgerald, Lecturer in General Practice, University of Sydney
Melissa Kang, Associate Professor in the Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
We often use the word vagina to describe everything “down there”, but that’s not actually anatomically correct.
The vagina is the stretchy, muscular tube that connects the external genitalia, or vulva, to the cervix, which is the entrance to the uterus (womb).
Because it’s barely visible from the outside, many vagina owners wonder how long theirs is, or should be.
Worried teenagers going through puberty regularly asked “Dolly Doctor” – the medical…
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Thursday, June 12, 2025
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of aid and lean season rapidly approaching, the UN Chief for Humanitarian Affairs once again sounded the alarm about the crisis unfolding in Sudan on Thursday.
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By Sophie Gee, Vice Chancellor's Fellow, English literature, University of Sydney
Jane Austen paid attention to the women novels had been invented to ignore, allowing readers to see their thoughts far more clearly.
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By Michael Walsh, Associate Professor, Screen and Media, Flinders University
Released 50 years ago, Sunday Too Far Away deals episodically with a group of shearers led by Foley (Jack Thompson), and the events leading up to the national shearers’ strike of 1956.
The shearers are a ragtag group held together by rum, unionism and competitiveness – as Foley must deal with the camp cook from hell, as well as a threat to his “gun” status.
As we celebrate the anniversary, it is hard to overstate its importance for the Australian…
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By T.J. Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
Ashwin Nagappa, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
Shir Weinbrand, PhD Candidate, Digital Media Research Centre, ADM+S Centre, Queensland University of Technology
People turn to the internet to run billions of search queries each year. These range from keeping tabs on world events and celebrities to learning new words and getting DIY help.
One of the most popular questions Australians recently asked was: “How to inspect a used car?”.
If you asked Google this at the beginning of 2024, you would have been served a list of individual search results and the order…
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By Alan Tidwell, Director, Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Georgetown University
The US worked hard over the past seven years to rebuild relationships in the Pacific and counter the influence of China. Trump is putting it all at risk.
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By Erin Barrera, PhD Candidate, School of Public Health, University of Adelaide
The algal bloom in SA is a warning to coastal communities, as well as tourism, seafood and aquaculture industries. It’s a sign of what’s to come as the oceans warm.
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By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide
For the first time, women lead Australia’s key economic institutions. The moment matters because research shows women think about the economy differently from men.
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